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Toynbee calls for young to vote to improve job prospects

Fri, 22/11/2013 - 12:22 -- nick

A column in today's Guardian by Polly Toynbee calls for young people to use their votes together to improve their job prospects and the way the government treats them.

The failure of the government's youth contract, a lack of apprenticeships, and many companies not doing their bit means the queue of young unemployed would stretch from London to Middlesbrough.

The number of youngsters unemployed for more than two years has gone up more than 300%, and they are being sanctioned more often as the government appears to be using this as a way of cutting the benefit bill.

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